Life or bird
Ayvah is a modern phonetic spelling variant of Ava. It most likely derives from the Latin 'avis', meaning bird, or it may be a variant of Eve, which comes from the Hebrew 'Chawah', meaning life or living one.
Less common today
Ayvah isn't in the latest US Top 1000. It last peaked at #1,473 in 2019.
US births per 5-year period, 1990–present (SSA data).
